America’s Lost Generation: A Need for Iconoclasm in Russian Studies
A new generation of PhD students is emerging in the U.S.—once again intrigued, concerned, and fascinated by Russia 2022 is starting to look, sound, and feel an awful lot like 1962. If you wonder how 60 years could pass with so much historical change and so many global shifts to end up at something quite reminiscent of the peak point of the Cold War (the Cuban Missile Crisis), it is then necessary to go on a recent historical journey to offer an uncomfortable explanation as to how this has all come...